Florida baseball has 10 local players on 2013 team

Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast will have a major imprint on this year’s Florida baseball team.
Coach Kevin O’Sullivan, a Jupiter native, routinely plucks talent from his home base and has done so again. The Gators lost senior Tyler Thompson, from Jupiter HS, who would have been a senior this year, but decided to leave the team.

Even without him, though, UF has 10 local players. The headliner is former Okeechobee standout Jonathon Crawford, who will be the team’s No. 1 starter this season. He will be on the mound Friday when Florida opens the season against Duke (7 p.m., SUN Sports).